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Introductions
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I would liken you / To a night without stars / Were it not for your eyes
I would liken you / To a sleep without dreams / Were it not for your songs
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Astrid Lundberg - Enkidu
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Last night I had a dream a star fell from the sky
It gave a light to the delight of all the people standing by
I woke up wondering about someone I'd never seen
Someone so far who, as a fallen star, appears to me in dreams
But will you miss the sky you fell from when you've landed at my feet?
Will you miss your life before me when we finally meet?
Will you hate how much I need you? Will you have enough to give?
I am young and scared of dying, will you teach me how to live?
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A song is but a little thing,
And yet what joy it is to sing!
In hours of toil it gives me zest,
And when at eve I long for rest;
When cows come home along the bars,
And in the fold I hear the bell,
As Night, the shepherd, herds his stars,
I sing my song, and all is well.
There are no ears to hear my lays,
No lips to lift a word of praise;
But still, with faith unfaltering,
I live and laugh and love and sing.
What matters yon unheeding throng?
They cannot feel my spirit’s spell,
Since life is sweet and love is long,
I sing my song, and all is well.
My days are never days of ease;
I till my ground and prune my trees.
When ripened gold is all the plain,
I put my sickle to the grain.
I labor hard, and toil and sweat,
While others dream within the dell;
But even while my brow is wet,
I sing my song, and all is well.
Sometimes the sun, unkindly hot,
My garden makes a desert spot;
Sometimes a blight upon the tree
Takes all my fruit away from me;
And then with throes of bitter pain
Rebellious passions rise and swell;
But—life is more than fruit or grain,
And so I sing, and all is well.
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I sometimes dream of rooms where I have played
hand after losing hand of solitaire
of the unchanging window where I stayed
and stared down the many faces of the year
she sometimes comes to me as spring
she sometimes comes to me as fall
some late winters, I have doubted that the year will come at all
I feel your beauty on the roof of my mouth, like the air in a perfumed room
and you move nature like the moon turned 'round, and the tide came in too soon
please know that if I weren't quite this hurt (bare branches like the brachia of bisected lungs)
if I believed you when you seemed so kind (breathe easy, babe, I won't breathe easy)
I'd give you what I think you might deserve (winter has me in his grasp though he is– )
and love you open arms and heart and mind (–dead and gone, he's dead and gone)
sunlight pierced his rooms in spring
I sailed out through the door in fall
winter comes and makes me feel I never left those rooms at all
I feel your beauty on the roof of my mouth, like the air in a perfumed room
and you move nature like the moon turned 'round, and the tide came in too soon
If oceans were all that I had in my way
I would build my own boat, I would sail night and day
I have fought my own thoughts, I would change if I could
I'd fight memory itself if it would do me any good
I would wander the earth without shoes on my feet
I would freeze in the cold, and I'd blister in the heat
I would tear down the walls of reality
and you would still scare me
But I feel your beauty on the roof of my mouth, like the air in a perfumed room
and you move nature like the moon turned 'round, and the tide came in too soon
I feel your beauty on the roof of my mouth, like the air in a perfumed room
and you move nature like the moon turned 'round, and the tide came in (and the tide came in) and the tide came in too soon
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About the Bass Concerto
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